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The first “running machine” — later known as the bicycle — symbolizes a key design idea.
Virtually anyone can now create convincing deepfakes. That doesn’t mean you should.
About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960.
The secret may lie in an old idiom: “Sleep on it.”
“Of course, the spleen is the biggest organ in the body.”
The Church of England is debating if believers should stop using gendered language when talking about God.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He’s a staff writer at Big Think, where he writes about philosophy, theology, psychology,[…]
Philosophy isn’t stuck in the past. Here are five texts to connect you with its ongoing dialogue.
Scotty Hendricks is a graduate student and long-time contributor to Big Think. He resides in Chicago.
A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
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Ideas often taken for granted in the United States and Europe about what it means to be a person are, quite simply, not shared with other cultures.
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In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
In the wake of the pandemic, the crystal industry boomed, with customers hoping the stones might relieve a little anxiety.
We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.